Breakfast
Wednesday - Petroc's classical alarm call
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. Show more
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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Highlights from the 2022 Schubertiade Schwarzenberg (2/4)
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Sarah Walker with highlights from the annual celebration of Schubert. The Modigliani Quartet play the String Quartet No 4 in C, and Renaud Capuçon, the Violin Sonata in A minor. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Mendelssohn in Italy with the BBC Philharmonic
2 hours, 1 minute
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Ian Skelly introduces a selection of music evoking the Italy of antiquity, including the BBC Philharmonic performing Mendelssohn's sun-kissed 'Italian' Symphony. Show more
Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, with music by Rorem, Walton, Wesley and Dupré. Show more
In Tune
Antonio Pappano, Santtu Matias-Rouvali, Sally Matthews and Simon Lepper
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty talks to Antonio Pappano, who leads the Coronation Orchestra, and conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, and soprano Sally Matthews and pianist Simon Lepper perform live. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Take 30 minutes out with a relaxing classical mix
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
An uninterrupted sequence of music, including works from 13th-century Italy, an Arab-Andalusian song, plus pieces by Haydn, Beethoven and Clara Schumann. Show more
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft perform two works by Ives, John Adams's Harmonielehre, and with soloist Bomsori Kim, Szymanowski's Violin Concerto. Show more
Free Thinking
Ireland's Hidden Histories and Secret Stories
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Hidden histories and secret stories from Ireland with poet Majella Kelly, historian Jackie Uí Chionna, memoirist Carmel McMahon, and criminologist Louise Brangan. Show more
This series tells the stories of ten people that reveal a story of the Tudor period as a time of multicultural exchange and encounter. Show more
Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The Romanian Radio National Orchestra perform Schumann, Brahms and Mendelssohn. John Shea presents. Show more
